Lighter Gabbard Wherry boat or other Vessel whatsoever without the consent privity or allowance of the Commissioners or respective Customers or Collectors of the customs their deputy or deputies testified by a note under his or their hand or hands that then every such Lighter Gabbard Wherry boar or other Vessel in which such Goods and merchandizes shall be put shall be forfeited and confiscated That before and during the unlading of any ships or Vessels after their arribal in any Port of this Realm the Commissioners and respective Customers and Collectors of the Customs shall and may where and as often as they shall see cause appoint one or more Tide-wayters or Officers to go on board every such ship or Vessel either from beyond the seas or from any other part within this Realm and there to lye and remain on board untill the Goods and merchandizes of such ship or Vessel shall be unladen or untill they the said Wayters or Officers shall be thence discharged And if any master Owner or other taking charge of any ship or Vessel refuse and will not suffer and permit any such Waytor or Officer to come on board his or their Vessel and there to remain as aforesaid and if after the clearing of any ship or Vessel by the Commissioners of the Customs Collectors or other Officers respectively or the discharging of the Tide wayters or other Officers from on board such ship or Vessel there shall be found on board such Ship or Vessel any Goods Wares or merchandizes which have been concealed from the knowledge of the Officer or Officers on board and for which the custom subsidy or other duties due upon the importation thereof are unpaid That then and in every such case the Master Owner or other person taking charge of such ship or Vessel shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of one hundred pounds of like mony of England That all and every Merchant and Merchants and any other person or persons whatsoever entring any Goods Wares or merchandizes to be shipped or landed shall make entry thereof particularly and deliver a bill thereof at large under his hand or the hand of his Assignee for whom be shall be responsible and auswerable to the collector expressing the name of the Ship and the Master the burthen of whence and from what place it was fraighted with the marks and numbers of the Fardles bulks and Packadge in the margent and the quantities and qualities of all and every the goods Wares and Merchandizes that are therein contained and so by him entred upon pain that every Merchant or Merchants and other person or persons not entring in such form and manner shall for every time forfeit ten pounds of like English mony And if any Merchant or other person or persons entring in manner as aforesaid shall make a short or undue entry of the quantity or quality of his or their Goods Wares or Merchandizes every such Merchant and other person shall forfeit and loose all such Goods Wares and merchandizes or the value of them which shall be so short or unduely entred That no person or persons shall carry any Goods Wares or Commodities prohibited or whereof any the duties aforesaid are payable to discharge the same in any other Port or place of this Realm unless such person or persons do before the shipping thereof declare and manifest to the Collector of the customs or their deputies together weith the customer or Comptroler of the said Port where the same shall be shipped in the open Custom-house the nature length number or other contents or value of the said Goods Wares or merchandizes and with the approbation of the Collector or his Deputy shall also make and enter into sufficient Obligation in the law in which he shall be bound to our Soveraign Lord the King with sufficient sureties in such sum as shall amount to the double value of such Goods Wares and merchandizes so declared and manifested with condition that the same shall be discharged at some lawfull Yort or place within this Realm and in no other Ports or Places whatsoever which bonds the said Collectors of the Customs or their deputies respectively are hereby required and authorized to take accordingly And incase any of the said Goods wares or merchandizes shall be shipped or Laden in any other ship or Vessel to be carried or transported between Port and Port aforesaid before such declaration be made or security given as aforesaid that then all and every the said Goods Wares and merchandizes or their value shall be forfeited and lost and every person or persons that shall ship such Goods and be bound as aforesaid shall within two months next after the shipping thereof â—ring or cause to be brought a true Certificate under the hand and seal of Office of the Customers or Collector or Collectors and Comptrollers or their Deputies of the said Port Creek or place where he or they shall happen to discharge the same testifying thar the said Goods Wares and merchandizes so shipped and the true nature length and number or other contents and value thereof is there discharged and landed which Certificate the customer and Comptroller of such Port or place where the said Goods Wares or merchandizes shall be discharged shall upon the discharge thereof deliver to the party so discharging the same or to his Factor without delay That every merchant which shall bring any manner of Goods Wares or merchandizes into any Port of this Realm and there entring and paying the Customs or Subsidy of the same will afterwards convey or carry away the same or any part of the same from thence into any other Port of this Realm That then the Owner of the said Goods or merchandizes his Factor or Attourney shall bring from the Collector and Comptroller of the Port where the said Goods and merchandizes shall be so entred a Certificate under the said Collector and Comptrollers seals directed to the customer and Comptroller of the Port where the said Goods and merchandizes shall be conveyed or carried specfying or making mention within the saâ—â— Certificate as well the quality as the quanâ—tity of the weight number measure of thâ— Goods Wares and merchandizes so entreâ— and that the same Certificate so made be dâ—livered to the said customer Collector anâ— Comptroller before the said Goods be dâ—â— charged That so they or such as they shalâ— appoint may see and try whether the quality quantity weight number or measure of thâ— same do agree with such Certificate and if any Certificate shall not be duely made 〈◊〉 form and manner and specifying or making mention according as is aforesaid that thâ— the said customer or Comptroller shall looâ— his or their Office and if any such Goodâ— Wares or Merchandizes or any parcel theâ— of be discharged and impacked or put to saâ—â— within any other Port then within the samâ—â— where they shall be first Entred before tâ—â— said certificate shall be delivered and tâ—â— Goods and
AN ACT For settling the SUBSIDY OF POUNDAGE And Granting A SUBSIDY OF TUNNAGE And other Sums of Money UNTO His Royal Majesty His Heirs and Successors The same to be paid upon MERCHANDIZES Imported and Exported into or out of the Kingdom of Ireland according to a Book of Rates hereunto annexed Dublin Printed by Benjamin Tooke Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty for Samuel Dancer Bookseller in Castle-street 1669. AN ACT For settling the Subsidie of Poundage and granting a Subsidie of Tunnage and other sums of Money unto his Royal Majesty his Heirs and Successors the same to be paid upon Merchandizes Imported Exported into or out of the Kingdom of IRELAND according to a BOOK OF RATES hereunto annexed FOrasmuch as by the Laws of this Realm Our Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs are to have receive and leavy one subsidy of Poundage that is to say of all and every twenty shillings worth of all manner of Merchandizes and Wares brought into this Realm of Ireland by any person or persons to be sold within the said Realm Twelve pence of lawfull money of England and likewise to have leavy and receive for every twenty shillings worth of Merchandizes and Wares after the price that they be bought within this Realm and to be carried out of the same to be sold by any manner of person or persons beyond the seas twelve Pence Wine and Oyl onely excepted And forasmuch as the prizes of all such Merchandizes and Wares brought in and sold and bought and carried out are uncertain and the duties therefore or subsidy of Poundage of the same not possibly to be had received leavied in so regular a way as the nature of such an Affair doth require unless some certain and set Rates be conceived by which the said Duties and subsidie may be paid We the Lords Spiritual and Temporal with the Commons of your Majesties Realm of Ireland in this present Parliament assembled upon due and mature consideration had of the present state and condition of the Trade of this your Realm and of the Nature Quality and several Vses of the Goods and Merchandizes Imported and Exported and of the most orderly and regular manner of leavying the said subsidy upon the Goods and Merchandizes aforesaid Do therefore most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by your most Excellent Majesty by the advice of the Lords spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same that the Rates mentioned and expressed in one book of Rates hereunto annexed Intituled The Rates of Merchandizes That is to say The Subsidy of Poundage and the Subsidy of Tunnage as they are Rated and agreed on by the Parliament of Ireland set down and expressed in this Book to be paid according to the Tenor of the Act of Poundage and Tunnage to the use of his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for ever shall be the Rates according to which all Goods and Merchandizes of every Merchant natural born subject Denizens and Aliens to be brought into all or any part of this Realm or carried out of the same of the value of every twenty shillings of the same Goods and Merchandizes according to the several and particular rates and values of the same Goods and Merchandizes as they are particularly and respectively rated and valued in the forementioned book shall pay twelve pence English money and that the said book of Rates together with certain Rules Orders and Directions thereunto annexed Intituled Certain Rules Orders Directions and Allowances for the advancement of Trade and the encouragement of Merchants as also for the regulating as well of the Merchants in making of due Entries and just payment of their customs as of the Officers in all Ports of this Realm in the receipts of their several Fees and in the faithful management of their Duties and Trusts And every Article Clause Sentence and Rule in the before-mentioned book of Rates and certain Rules Orders and Directions aforesaid shall from and after the first day of December One thousand six hundred sixty one be and remain as effectual to all intents and purposes as aforesaid as if the same had been particularly included in the body of this present Act And for the better guarding and defending of the Seas against all persons intending or that may intend the disturbance of the intercourse of the Trade of this Your Majesties Realm and for the better defraying the necessary expences thereof which otherwise cannot be effected without great charge And for increase and augmentation of Your Majesties Revenue be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that your Majesty your Heirs and Successors shall have leavy and receive for ever from and after the said first day of December One thousand six hundred sixty and one one subsidy more of Poundage that is to say of every twenty shillings value of any of the native Commodities of this Realm or Manufacture wrought of any such Commodities to be carried out of this Realm by every Merchant stranger or other Alien according to the value thereof in the aforesaid book of Rates expressed twelve pence of like English money over and above the twelve pence aforesaid and also one subsidy called Tunnage that is to say Every Tun of Wine of the growth of France or of any the Dominions of the French King or Crown of France that shall come or be brought into the Port of Dublin and the members thereof and into all and every the other Ports and places of this Realm by Your Majesties natural born Subjects of this Realm or any other Your Majesties Dominions the sum of three pounds and ten shillings of lawfull money of England and by strangers and Aliens the sum of Four Pounds Thirteen shillings and Four Pence of like money and of every But or Pipe of Muscadine Malmeseis Cutes Tents Allicants bastardsacks Canaries Malligoes Maderaes and all other Wines whatsoever commonly called sweet Wines of the growth of the Levant Spain Portugal or of any of the Islands or Dominions to them or any of them belonging or elsewhere that shall come and be brought into the Port of Dublin or members thereof and into all and every the other Ports and places of this Realm by any natural born subject as aforesaid the sum of two pounds and ten shillings of like mony of England and by strangers and aliens the sum of three pounds six shillings and eight pence of every Awme containing fourty two Gallons of Rhenish wine of the growth of Germany that shall come and be brought into this your Majesties Realm by your natural born subjects as aforesaid the sum of fifteen shillings of like mony and by straingers and aliens twenty shillings of every Tun of Rape and Linseed-Oyles containing two hundred fifty two Gallons that shall come and be brought into the Port of Dublin or any of the Ports of this Realm by any natural born subject as aforesaid
the hindering of merchants strangers and others from vending his or their goods without offering them first to some Burgess or Freeman of such City Corporation or Town where such merchant stranger or other do arrive with his or their goods commonly known by the name of Lownvargain is very destructive to the Trade â—nd commerce of this Realm and very preâ—udicial to your Majesties Revenue Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that from and after the said first â—ay of December one thousand six hundred sixty one no such Town bargain shall be required nor any Merchant or other hindered or with-held from disposing of his or their God's Wares or Merchandizes without offering them as aforesaid but that all and every Merchant stranger or other importing any goads wares or Merchandizes from beyond the Seas and paying all duties by law due and payable thereupon shall and may from time to time and at all times at his and their will and pleasure freely and without let molestation or binderance sell and dispose of his or their Goods and Merchandizes any Charter Custom Vsage Priviledge or liberty of or unto any City or Town Corporate at any time made given granted to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And forasmuch as several antient duties under the name of Town and petty customs due and payable by Merchants strangers unto several Cities and Towns corporate of this your Majesties Realm have been and are demanded received and taken by their Farmors Deputies or Officers in a far greater quantity and proportion then is of right belonging in respect the same have been and are required upon more Goods then are truly lyable thereunto and according to the Kates after which the customs have been from time to time increased and paid unto your Majesty and your Royal Predecessors which exceed far the ancient Kates according to which such petty customs can be required and taken Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that from henceforth no such petty customs be demanded received or paid for or upon any more or other Commodities then were chargeable with the same by antient custom and prescription and not according to the increase of his Majesties customs by his Majesties book of Rates nor for any Wares or Commodities by virtue of any grant but such as were charged at the time of the Grant made by your Majesties Royal predecessors of such petty customs unto any citty or Town corporate nor at any other or greater Rate or Kates then the same weneither payed or answered by the Merchants â—rangers at the time of the respective granting of the same or as the same were taken in the fifteenth year of the late King Henry the seventh any grant usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding upon pain that every person or persons demanding or receiving more or greater petty customs then as aforesaid shall forfeit for every such offence double the value of what shall be exacted or received upon more commodities or at greater â—ates then as aforesaid saving unto Wentworth Earl of Kildare and the Heirs Males of the body of Gerald Fitz. Gerald Earl of Kildare all such Estate Kight and Title of in and to the great and little customs pounages subsidies duties together with the â—ocquet and power of constituting Officers hereunto belonging there the Ports and Harbours of Strangford and Aâ—dglass in he county of Down and Province of Ulster no the creeks and members thereunto apertaining as they or any of them can or may â—aim or demand by or under any Letters Patents thereof made by King Henry the â—â—ght unto the said Gerald Fitz. Gerald Earl of Kildare as fully and amply as the â—ame was granted in and by such Letters Parents any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding THE RATES OF MERCHANDIZES That is to say The Subsidy of Poundage and the Subsidy of Tunnage as they are Rated and agreed upon by the Parliament of Ireland set down and expressed in this Book to be paid according to the tenor of the Act of Poundage and Tunnage to the use of His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for ever The RATES of MERCHANDIZES Rates Inwards A l. s d. ADzes for Coopers the dozen 00 12 00 Aggers small as a bean the hundred dozen 00 13 04 Aggets large the piece 00 00 06 Alphabets the set containing twenty four 00 05 00 Allom English the hundred weight containing one hundred twelve pounds 00 10 00 Alphisti or Canary seeds the hundred weight containing one hundred and twelve pound 03 15 00 Amber The pound 00 07 04 Amber The Mast containing two pound and a half 00 08 04 Amber Beads the pound 01 00 00 Anchovis the little barrel 00 07 0â— Andirons Or Creepers of Lattin the pound 00 01 00 Andirons Of Iron wrought in England the pair 00 10 00 Andlets oâ— Mails the pound 00 03 0â— Anvils English the hundred containing one hundred and twelve pound 00 08 00 Aneile of Barbary the pound 00 03 00 Annotto the pound 00 01 00 Apples The Bushel 00 01 00 Apples The Barrel containing 3 Bnshels 00 03 0â— Aquavitae The Barrel 05 06 0â— Aquavitae The Hogshead 08 00 00 Argal white or red or powder the hundred weight containing 112 pounds 01 03 04 Armour old the hundred weight containing one hundred and twelve pounds 01 00 0â— Arrows for Truncks the groce containing twelve dozen 00 06 0â— Ashes vocat Pot-ashes the barrel containing two hundred pound 02 10 0â— Ashes vocat Wood or Soap-ashes the last coning twelve barrels 12 00 00 Aule blades the thousand English 00 08 00 Aulgers English for Carpenters the groce 00 10 0â— Aulgers Forraign for Carpenters the groce 01 00 00 Axes or Hatchets the dozen 00 06 08 B. Â Â Â Babies or Puppets for Children the groce containing twelve dozen 00 13 04 Babies Heads of Earth the dozen 00 10 00 Bacon of England or Wales the Flitch 00 10 00 Bacon of Westphalia and all Forraign the hundred containing one hundred and twelve pound 02 00 00 Balks Great the hundred containing one hundred twenty balks 12 00 00 Balks Middle the hundred containing one hundred twenty balks 05 00 00 Balks Small the hundred containing one hundred and twenty balks 02 00 00 Bags with locks the dozenâ— 02 08 00 Bags with steel Rings without locks the dozen 01 12 00 Ballances vocat Gold Ballances the groce containing twelve dozen pair 04 00 00 Ballances vocat Ounce Ballances the groce containing twelve dozen pair 02 00 00 Ballances vocat The Sort containing four dozen 02 13 04 Balls vocat Tennis Balls the thousand 02 00 00 Balls vocat Wash Balls the groce containing twelve dozen 02 00 00 Bandaleers the hundred containing five score 00 16 08 Bandstrings the dozen knots 00 10 00 Bands vocat Flanders bands of Bonelace the band 10 00 00 Bands vocat Cut work of Flanders or any other country 02 00 00 Bankers of